Meg Whitman

Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (4 August 1956-) was an American business executive, political activist, and philanthropist. She served as CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, serving from 20 November 2017 to 1 February 2018. She was a member of Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012 and ran for Governor of California as a Republican Party member, but she voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Biography
Meg Whitman was born in Huntington, New York on 4 August 1956, and she graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Business School. She served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company, serving as Vice President of Strategic Planning during the 1980s; during the 1990s, she worked for DreamWorks, Procter & Gamble, and Hasbro. In 2008 and 2012, she was a senior member of Republican Party nominee Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns, and she ran for Governor of California in 2009 as the Republican candidate. She lost to Democratic Party nominee Jerry Brown with 41% of the vote to his 54%. In 2016, Whitman broke with her party to support Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, as the Republican nominee Donald Trump disgusted many women with his misogynistic remarks.